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...resources and contacts provided by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS); a greater media focus on Latin America and a “new orientation of American history, focusing more on north-south rather than east-west” that cause students to explore their own roots; and the rich cultural and intellectual resources of Latin America, including its indigenous societies, economic and social inequalities, literature, and architecture.DRCLAS coordinates Harvard study abroad programs in Chile, Argentina, and Cuba, and assists students in applying for other pre-approved study abroad programs in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. In addition...
...through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass jar, the impact of the Euro on the Salumeria, the less than desirable...
...media. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to preserve their children from a traumatic, hostile to them, even abhorrent society?" he asked. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to protect the innocence of their children?" In 1953 authorities tried to root out the fathers and rescue the children, but after a couple of years of costly court cases and a tide of public opinion in favor of keeping families together--no matter how unconventional--the two worlds essentially agreed to ignore each other...
...President? -Brian Lemieux, Los AngelesThe scale of solutions we need for the next 20 years is so enormous that I could not both do what I'm doing and run for President. I may someday run, but I think my primary contribution is to go to the root of problems, to try to understand the scale of change we need...
...below the poverty line dropped 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960, before Congress passed any important civil rights legislation.But from 1960 to 1980, the poverty rate among African American families fell only 18 percentage points, even after social programs like the War on Poverty and affirmative action took root. The restoration of African Americans’ civil rights wasn’t responsible for their economic standing...